Move Aside, Drs. McSteamy and McDreamy: Handsome Doctor Infopost
Leonard McCoy is a doctor, not an educator--at least until now. Starfleet Academy requires second-year medical students to complete either research or teaching residencies, and lucky, lucky McCoy got assigned to teach at Fandom High.
• Dr. McCoy is a character from Star Trek; this iteration more specifically from the rebooted film universe in the 2009 and 2013 films. Time travel happened and changed the past, and every previous series, video game, novel, comic, and factoid on the back of a cereal box got erased in this irreparably altered timeline.
• He's played by Karl Urban. This is his face.
• He was born in 2227 in Atlanta, Georgia. He speaks Federation Standard most commonly, which conveniently sounds enough like English to be legible to English-speakers. He's got a bit of a Georgian drawl and likes metaphors. Maybe too much.
• He attended Ole Miss for med school, where he met his wife, Pamela.
• Joanna and Jocelyn do not exist in the altered timeline, TOS fans. I miss them, too.
• You can call him Bones, but he certainly won't like it, and he'll wonder how the hell you found out that stupid kid in San Francisco calls him Bones.
• That stupid kid in San Francisco is his best friend Jim Kirk (not to be confused with seeks-the-stars*).
• Before joining up with Starfleet, he was a pediatrician recently out of his residency. Then his life went to absolute shambles and he threw his hands up and decided leaving the planet was the best option. One of his young patients died, his mother passed, and his wife left him. On top of still reeling with guilt over signing off on euthanizing his father during his residency, he's still a bit sore. Starfleet gave him purpose again, but it didn't heal the hurt.
• McCoy was meant to be the "soul" bit of the heart/mind/soul triumvirate of Kirk/Spock/McCoy. He's the Id to Kirk and Spock's respective Ego and Superego.
• He's compassionate and sees healing as his life's work, but he's a huge grump. He's also wildly emotional and reactive, often for hypocritical and conflicting reasons. He has the capacity for great love and also for great anger and jealousy. He'll be sarcastic and biting, and will absolutely voice his disgruntled opinions, but is ultimately incredibly empathetic. He's caring and loyal, if a bit cranky.
• He's all bark and no bite, the big softie.
• He's vaguely non-denominationally religious. He prays for Jim. Don't tell him.
• This McCoy is pre-most of the canon from the films. He is destined to become a medical genius, but he's still working his way up. His natural talents are impressive, and he has the steadiest hands in the galaxy and the nimble fingers of a surgeon (watch out, ladies).
*McCoy will recognize younger Kirk, but will absolutely not comment on it, because he's a superstitious bastard and potentially world-imploding consequences could follow. Best to let him keep thinking that way.
And the incredible DeForest Kelley, for good measure.
• Dr. McCoy is a character from Star Trek; this iteration more specifically from the rebooted film universe in the 2009 and 2013 films. Time travel happened and changed the past, and every previous series, video game, novel, comic, and factoid on the back of a cereal box got erased in this irreparably altered timeline.
• He's played by Karl Urban. This is his face.
• He was born in 2227 in Atlanta, Georgia. He speaks Federation Standard most commonly, which conveniently sounds enough like English to be legible to English-speakers. He's got a bit of a Georgian drawl and likes metaphors. Maybe too much.
• He attended Ole Miss for med school, where he met his wife, Pamela.
• Joanna and Jocelyn do not exist in the altered timeline, TOS fans. I miss them, too.
• You can call him Bones, but he certainly won't like it, and he'll wonder how the hell you found out that stupid kid in San Francisco calls him Bones.
• That stupid kid in San Francisco is his best friend Jim Kirk (not to be confused with seeks-the-stars*).
• Before joining up with Starfleet, he was a pediatrician recently out of his residency. Then his life went to absolute shambles and he threw his hands up and decided leaving the planet was the best option. One of his young patients died, his mother passed, and his wife left him. On top of still reeling with guilt over signing off on euthanizing his father during his residency, he's still a bit sore. Starfleet gave him purpose again, but it didn't heal the hurt.
• McCoy was meant to be the "soul" bit of the heart/mind/soul triumvirate of Kirk/Spock/McCoy. He's the Id to Kirk and Spock's respective Ego and Superego.
• He's compassionate and sees healing as his life's work, but he's a huge grump. He's also wildly emotional and reactive, often for hypocritical and conflicting reasons. He has the capacity for great love and also for great anger and jealousy. He'll be sarcastic and biting, and will absolutely voice his disgruntled opinions, but is ultimately incredibly empathetic. He's caring and loyal, if a bit cranky.
• He's all bark and no bite, the big softie.
• He's vaguely non-denominationally religious. He prays for Jim. Don't tell him.
• This McCoy is pre-most of the canon from the films. He is destined to become a medical genius, but he's still working his way up. His natural talents are impressive, and he has the steadiest hands in the galaxy and the nimble fingers of a surgeon (watch out, ladies).
*McCoy will recognize younger Kirk, but will absolutely not comment on it, because he's a superstitious bastard and potentially world-imploding consequences could follow. Best to let him keep thinking that way.
And the incredible DeForest Kelley, for good measure.